Lalpur - Murder in Court

A 30-year-old man was stabbed to death in court compound at Lalpur.

THe victim  was accused of killing a youth a year ago, the father of the youth stabbed the victim to death.

The victim, Sultan Osman Sama's was on trial for killing Yusuf Sama's son Hanif.

Yusuf did not tried to escape the scene, the killing took place in broad daylight in presence of lawyers and policemen.

Police told that he wanted to take revenge for his son's murder and he regretted that he could not stab him more.

Nanduri - Jamnagar's Tobacco-less village

A welcoming agreement was announced in the Nanduri Village of Lalpur Taluka in Jamnagar this week,

Nanduri, a village of 5000 residents near Lalpur decided to not to sell tobacco products in the village, there are 15 shops currently in Nanduri that sells tobacco products, all the shopkeepers agreed to not to sell tobacco in village.

Shopkeepers agreed on a fine of Rs 2000, if one is found to sell the tobacco, the collected fine will be used in collecting grass for cows

Hundreads affected by food poisoning

More then 100 people from Lalpur area were hospitalised after severe complaint of diarrhoea and vomiting, caused by consumption of contaminated drinking water.

Of these, around 80 people were from nearby villages of Lalpur. More then 20 people with serious condition were shifted to G G hospital at Jamnagar.

Lalpur - Heavy Seismic Activities

Lalpur Town is experiencing very heavy seismic activities in last few days, some places in Jamnagar also felt the tremors in few days.

 

The first tremor was measured as 2.6 on Richter scale with second of scale 3.

 

Basic theory believes that these are caused by elevation of ground water table due to heavy rains in this region.

 

Heavy Rains Marooned Khambhaliya , Jamnagar District

Last 2 days, heavy rains marooned entire Jamnagar district, and Jamnagar city received 5 inch more rain

And Khambhaliya completed century (100 inch) of rain.

Details of total rainfall as under

Area	Today's Rain (mm)	Today's Rain (inch)	Total Rain (mm)	Total Rain (inch)
Khambhaliya	287	11.48	2547	101.88
Jamnagar	134	5.36	2031	81.24
Dhrol	84	3.36	675	27
Kalavad	93	3.72	903	36.12
Lalpur	81	3.24	1903	76.12
Kalyanpur	44	1.76	1822	72.88
Bhanvad	44	1.76	1356	54.24
Jodiya	42	1.68	1031	41.24
Dwarka	36	1.44	1054	42.16
Jamjodhpur	26	1.04	1133	45.32

UPDATED - Weekend Rain News

Jamnagar City received around 7.5 inch rain in the weekend,
In the city, rain started from Friday evening continued till Sunday and lashed around 7.5 inch of rainfall. flooding areas like Rameshwar nagar, Khodiya Colony, Limda-lane, Bedi gate, Jayshree Talkies etc. Lakhota lake also received fresh supply of rain-water.

Jamnagar district's Kalyanpur taluka's Bhatia lake filled completly in this rainfall, Lalpur also received 0.75 inch, Bhanvad , Dhrol received 1.25 inch. and Jodia,Kalawad received .5 inch rain in last weekend.



Image courtsey : Nobat

6 drowned in Jamnagar

around 6 people lost their lives by drowning in last 2 days, this
includes 1 person in lakhota lake, 2 near bholeshwar - lalpur and 3
girls drowned near khera beraja , near Jamnagar.

Heavy rain lashes Jamnagar district

Jamnagar district finally had its share of rain in last week-end, On saturday night and Sunday morning Khambhaliya received 6 inch of rain, maximum in the current season,

Jamnagar city received around 4 inch in just around one hour. Lalpur, Lamba received 3 inch, Bhanvad 2.5, Dwarka 2, Dhrol, Jamjodhpur received 1.75 inch.

Water reserviour across the district received new water. Ranjit Sagar Dam level is up by around 15 ft , UmiyaSagar dam is overflowing at 15 ft.
Total rain received in this season is as follows

Place                     : Rain in Inch
Jamnagar                : 13
Kalyanpur               : 11
Dhrol                      : 3
Lalpur                     : 8
Khambhaliya           : 9
Dwarka                  : 5
Bhanvad                 : 9
Kalavad                  : 7
Jodiya :                   : 4
Jam-Jodhpur           : 8

Rain In Jamnagar district

Heavy rain continues in Jamnagar district
Jam jodhpur received 3 inch rain in 2 hrs.
Bhanvad, lalpur and kalavad too received good rain

ST - Son caught while working for father

Son was caught working as a conductor in place of his father at Rajkot.

He was working on a special bus from Amreli division, that was allotted to Lalpar-Jamnagar route for Chief Minister Narendra Modi's programme at Lalpur.

The accused, Bhavesh Joshi was caught on a raid organized by Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) at Rajkot depot, Bhavesh said as his father was taking nap, so he worked instead.

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Narendra Modi - Visiting Lalpur Tomorrow

CM Modi is visiting Lalpur tomorrow,  Narendrabhai will inaugurate the "Swarnim Gujarat" Sankalp Yatra and will also donate help to 132 girls from "Kanya Nidhi" fund.

Year 2010 will be celebrated as "Swarnim Gujarat", to mark the 50th anniversary of Gujarat State.

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Showers Continuing in Jamnagar

Four more reservoirs in the district got overflowed today, as the rain in continued since last three days.

Here is the status of rainfall received in the season (in MM)

Jamnagar    -    670
Bhanvad        -    717
Dhrol        -    351
Jam-Jodhpur    -    608
Kalavad        -    495
Kalyanpur    -    826
Khambhaliya    -    461
Lalpur        -    854

Ranjit Sagar is overflowing today

Satisfactory rain in Jamnagar District

It was a long wait, and Rain did not disappointed Jamnagar.
Till the last news Lalpur , Jamjodhpur and Bhanvad had received almost 3 inch of rainfall yesterday.  Khabhaliya, Jodiya and Kalavad received 2 to 2.5 inch of rain.
Jamnagar city recorded around 0.5 Inch of rainfall.

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Jamnagar - More Progressive works on the way

Jaynarayan Vyas is the designated minister for Jamnagar District.

He outlined following activities which are under progress / planned for the district.

·        Piping work for proposed Narmada work outlining is under progress and will complete by this December, this will enable 496 villages in 6 Taluka’s to have seamless distribution of water.

·        Bridge of Lalpur town was damaged in last rainy season, this will be rebuilt.

·        Khabbhalia – Rajkot link road will be completed by December.

·        In a new experimental approach, once in a week each main medical center will have an expert Private doctor to serve at the center.

·        Staffing issues of G.G. Hospital (Irwin Hospital) will also be addressed soon

Jamnagar - 59th Republic Day Celebration

Jamnagar held its main function for 59th Republic day in Lalpur, A small
Taluka 35 KM from here.

Jay Narayan Vyas saluted the Tricolor flag and saluted the parade; he
praised Gujarat for its wonderful achievements in Finance, Agro, Power
and many other main streams.

He also detailed various MNC investments which will take place in the
District in coming years and also how much the Govt. is looking forward
for the Agricultural Shape up of the State.

Jamnagar - Para military Forces arrived

As Elections are approaching, 16 Platoons of BSF arrived yesterday
arrived yestrday morning in Jamnagar , More 31 platoons will arrive
within next week.

These forces will be distributed in area like Meghpar, Lalpur, Okha,
Jam-jodhpur, Jam-kalyanpur.

various Check posts are set up on state highway's and petrolling
parties are geared up to stand against anything abnormal happening
while elections are on.

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Jamnagar flood - rain Images

Misc town images, showing flood havoc.

rain images of Jamnagar

lalpur town is seperated

Middle aged couple drowned in the Nagmati river

A middle aged couple drowned in the Nagmati river with their bullock-cart near Navi-Veraval village in Lalpur taluka.

The incident took place late last evening when the couple- Keshubhai Devabhai Ghaghiya (38) and his wife Ramiben (35) drowned in the flood waters while crossing the river using a low-level bridge.

However, three others in the bullock-cart managed to swim to safety. One of the bullocks also drowned in the mishap.

Jamnagar Village under Quake Threat

Jamnagar Village under Quake Threat,

Residents of Khankhotda village, ( Kalawad taluka)  have been spending sleepless nights since a month. The mild tremors are experienced with huge bangs people fear the repeat of the 2001 quake, they are still not ready to shift to their houses and have been living in tents erected for them by the administration.  The region experienced eleven "blasts" on Sunday and six mild tremors on Monday. this village is the epicentre, the Jamnagar District Collector Office has erected tents where around 100 people have taken shelter. In other villages like Bagha and Lalpur also, people are spending night in the open.

Purshottam Patel sarcpanch of Khankhotda says that, more than 100 people have taken refuge in around 30 tents. ''It's been more than a month that people here have not been able to sleep because of these tremors and blasts,''.

On Sunday, 11 tremors were recorded between 7 am and 1 pm. Another tremor measuring 2.4 on the Richter scale hit the region around 4 pm.

Last Friday, Dwarka in Jamnagar district also recorded an undersea tremor measuring 2.8 on the Richter scale. ''Tremors recorded were very mild. There's no reason to panic," said Jamnagar District Collector VP Patel.

Seismologist SS Gadhvi said: ''Jamnagar district is in zone number 3, which means it has less possibility of being hit by an earthquake. No fault line is active in Saurashtra region. So there could be mild tremors, but no powerful earthquake.''  the team also explained that the tremors are result of movement between two plates, located hardly 2 kms down from the surface. The team, which has set up two temporary observatories in Khankhotda and Lalpur, based on their past two days' experience said that blast will continue for another one and a half months. ''It will subside when movements between two plates will stop,'

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Lalpur - madrassa student beaten to death

A 20-year-old student of a madrassa was beaten to death by his 23-year-old teacher in Lalpur (incidently this town was my home-town) of Jamnagar district on Thursday evening following an incident of eve-teasing.

Jamnagar police said the victim :  Nazir Ahmad, belonged to a poor family of labourers from Salaya town and had taken admission for studying Urdu four years ago at Darool Ulam Madrassa.

On Tuesday, he was accused of teasing madrassa trustee Hafiz Umagul's daughter.

 

Angered over this, the teacher, Tanveer Ahmed Anwar Sheikh, beat the victim with a stick, causing serious injuries.

Nazir, was unconscious, rushed to a nearby hospital around 7 pm where he succumbed three hours later.

 

The news of Nazir's death spread like wild fire in the town and Salaya where his parents live.

Sub-inspector Patel said madrassa principal Nurkhan Usmankhan Pathan lodged a complaint against Tanveer, ( who is absconding) 

 

Police, after registering a murder case, had handed over the body to the boy's parents.